Crack your peak performance code – the food, exercise and lifestyle hacks to help you optimise your energy

In the first of a three-part series, Anna Magee looks at how we can train our body to fuel itself efficiently and say goodbye to feeling frazzled 24/7

We eat, sleep, work repeat... but how can we do it so that we don’t crash at the first sign of hard work? (Getty)

Remember the great resignation of 2021 when many of us had had enough – and left. Microsoft’s work trend index reported that after a year of the pandemic, four in 10 workers wanted to change jobs in the following year. Now, that’s making way for the great exhaustion, when those of us who stayed got tired – really, really tired.

The energy drain we’re feeling isn’t just at work, it’s everywhere. We’re knackered. Frazzled. And it’s stopping us from doing the things that make us healthy, like exercise. Whatever type of tiredness you’re feeling, you’re not alone.

A YouGov report has found that 61 per cent of women feel tired when they wake up, even when they get a lot of sleep, while 49 per cent of men say the same.